Principal Data Scientist, Oncology

Johnson & Johnson

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On-site
Location
Spring House, PACambridge, MASan Diego, CATitusville, NJRaritan, NJ
Salary
$117,000–$201,250 / yr
Posted
78 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago

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This role $159k
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This role pays less than 63% of similar roles. Most pay $131,365–$203,862 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $159k versus about $168k for comparable roles.

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About Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson is a multinational corporation operating in three main segments: consumer health products, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices, known for brands like Tylenol, Band-Aid, and Janssen. Industry: Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices

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TL;DR · Principal Data Scientist, Oncology

The Principal Data Scientist - Oncology joins the Data Science and Digital Health team to standardize and connect biomedical and clinical data across the product lifecycle. This role involves building a scalable knowledge graph infrastructure focused on oncology research data, ensuring interoperability for analytics, search, and AI applications. The candidate will curate ontologies using RDF standards, develop ingestion pipelines, and manage graph database infrastructure. Key technical requirements include proficiency in SPARQL, GraphQL, REST services, and graph databases like Neo4j or Amazon Neptune. The role also requires experience with SQL, Python-based parsing, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab. By integrating enterprise master data with R&D information, the individual will solve complex data organization challenges to create AI-ready datasets for drug discovery, disease mapping, and treatment development within the oncology domain.

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What you'll do

  • Design and implement a scalable knowledge graph infrastructure for Oncology R&D data standardization and interoperability.
  • Apply graph-based data modeling to organize, integrate, and retrieve complex oncology research data.
  • Collaborate with scientists to curate and create AI-ready datasets from various biomedical sources.
  • Curate and extend ontologies using RDF standards to map concepts into established biomedical terminologies.
  • Develop ingestion and curation pipelines to normalize and map concepts across diverse data sources.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to enable NLP, RAG over graphs, and predictive modeling features.
  • Manage graph database infrastructure in coordination with IT and DevOps for high availability and scalability.
  • Create technical documentation including data dictionaries, lineage, and flow diagrams to support the knowledge graph.

What we're looking for

  • Preferred Ph.D. or Master's degree in bioengineering, computer science, IT, bioinformatics, physics, mathematics, or related fields.
  • 5+ years of professional experience in health informatics.
  • Demonstrated experience in large-scale knowledge graph construction and ontology development within pharmaceutical or healthcare domains.
  • Programming background in parser combinators, natural language processing, and linked data including RDF Triple Stores and property graphs.
  • Proficiency in semantic web technologies such as SPARQL, RDF, and OWL, and familiarity with graph databases like Neo4j or Amazon Neptune.
  • Experience working with complex biomedical datasets including clinical, genomics, and proteomics data.
  • Proficiency in various data storage solutions including SQL, key-value, column, document, and graph stores.
  • Experience with CI/CD implementations, Git, DevOps tools, and containerization technologies like Docker or Singularity.

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